Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#
Create professional games with solid gameplay features and professional-grade workflow
2nd Edition
Published on 13. January 2025
568 pages
978-1-78839-839-8 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Preparation and Asset Configuring
- Getting clear on design
- Target platforms
- Intended audience
- Genre
- Game mode
- Game objective
- Asset preparation
- Meshes - Work only with good topology
- Meshes - Minimize polygon count
- Meshes - Simulating bump details without geometry
- Meshes - Minimize UV seams
- Meshes - Export as FBX
- Meshes - Use meters scale (metric)
- Textures - Never use lossy compression
- Textures - Power of 2 sizes
- Textures - Alpha textures
- Asset importing for Dead Keys
- Importing textures
- Importing meshes
- Importing animations
- Importing audio
- Configuring materials
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Level Design and Structure
- Setting the scene with a skybox
- Level building - Modular construction sets
- Level building - Organization and structure
- Level design - Tips and tricks
- Objective and feedback
- Narrative
- Believability and convenience
- Atmosphere and aesthetic
- Simplicity and reuse
- Level lighting - Preparation
- Baked lighting
- Dynamic lighting
- Precomputed global illumination
- Getting started with lightmapping
- Baking lightmaps - Resolution and size
- Baking lightmaps - Details
- Light Probes
- Lighting FAQ
- Navigation mesh
- Occlusion Culling
- Creating a player camera
- Particle systems
- Music and audio
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Player Controls - Movement
- Player movement
- Zombie combat
- Creating player waypoints
- Animating the camera
- Configuring an animator graph
- Working with animation - creating the navigator
- Customizing and changing MonoDevelop
- Singletons
- Comments
- Connecting to the navigator component
- Comments
- Navigator GUI
- Input axes
- The canvas
- The button
- Coding button behavior
- Comments
- Creating player death
- Comments
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Player Controls - Typing and Health
- Word combat
- Creating a word list
- Using Visual Studio Code
- Creating a WordList class
- Comments
- Comments
- Matching words
- Comments
- The Typer object
- Progressing with the Typer class
- Comments
- Health and damage
- Comments
- Comments
- Damage and feedback
- Player score
- Comments
- Bonus items
- Comments
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Enemies and Artificial Intelligence
- Configuring the zombie character
- Getting started with the zombie Prefab
- Planning the zombie Artificial Intelligence
- Comments
- Developing state structure
- Comments
- Developing an NPC Animator Controller
- Developing the Idle state
- Comments
- Developing the Chase state
- Comments
- Developing the Attack state and more
- Comments
- Developing the Dead state
- Zombies and text input
- Comments
- Zombies and the Typer class
- Comments
- Comments
- Activating enemies and camera paths
- Working with Play mode
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Project Management and Version Control
- Project management
- Research, design, and work assessment
- Workload plan
- Task status
- Risk analysis
- Resources and skills needed
- Testing plan
- Applied project management using Trello
- Collaboration with cloud storage
- Version control using Git
- Getting started with Git and GitKraken
- Commits and branches
- Forward and backward with Git
- Configuring Unity for version control
- Reverting and discarding
- Branches and branching
- Conflicts and resolving
- Git and the web
- Pushing and pulling
- Cloning
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States
- Data serialization
- Player preferences - saving data
- Player preferences - loading data
- Player preferences - INI files
- Comments on iniParser.cs
- Saving data - XML files
- Comments
- Saving data - JSON files
- Comments
- Saving data - binary files
- Comments
- Saving data for Dead Keys
- Comments
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More
- Stats and performance
- Profiler and performance assessment
- Optimization tips and tricks
- Strings and comparisons
- Beware of functions in disguise
- Debug cleaning
- Optimizing build size
- Getting started with mobile development
- Moving forward with mobile development
- Building for Android
- Building for VR (Virtual Reality)
- Summary
- Index
